All Outputs (7)

Reports from the field: Connect: Resound as a support for music making in rural England (2020)
Book Chapter
King, A., Prior, H. M., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2020). Reports from the field: Connect: Resound as a support for music making in rural England. In J. L. Waldron, S. Horsley, & K. K. Veblen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning (265-273). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190660772.013.16

Connect: Resound is an ongoing project supporting music for schools in England with limited access to teachers and instruments. This field report focuses on the ways in which online technology in Connect: Resound is used to facilitate lessons. It is... Read More about Reports from the field: Connect: Resound as a support for music making in rural England.

Reflection: Expressive freedoms in trumpet performance (2018)
Book Chapter
Desbruslais, S. (2018). Reflection: Expressive freedoms in trumpet performance. In D. Leech-Wilkinson, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and shape (242-247). Oxford University Press

Shape as understood by performing musicians (2017)
Book Chapter
Prior, H. Shape as understood by performing musicians.

Abstract Previous studies of performing musicians have examined performance preparation and its concomitant decision-making, as well as musical expression and some of the ways in which performers describe their expressive intentions, but studies of t... Read More about Shape as understood by performing musicians.

Heuristics for expressive performance (2014)
Book Chapter
Prior, H., & Leech-Wilkinson, D. (2014). Heuristics for expressive performance. In R. Timmers, D. Fabian, & E. Schubert (Eds.), Expressiveness in musical performance: Empirical approaches across styles and cultures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199659647.003.0003

This chapter discusses concepts and terms that professional musicians find useful in preparing for and talking and thinking about expressive performance. An example is “shape,” which, as recent research has shown, is immensely flexible and useful for... Read More about Heuristics for expressive performance.

Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening (2013)
Book Chapter
Prior, H. (2013). Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance. Routledge

The origins of this work, as in much research, lie in a personal experience. My first exposure to a selection of Schoenberg’s piano works (which happened to be through a recording) had resulted in an ambivalent response, but upon hearing the same rec... Read More about Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening.

Groove as Familiarity with Time (2013)
Book Chapter
Oliver, R. (2013). Groove as Familiarity with Time. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and Familiarity : Listening, Musicology and Performance (239 - 252). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596600

The chapter explores the instrumentalist’s relationship with musical time, arguing that the capacity for groove in solo performance depends upon the musician’s familiarity with stylistically nuanced conceptions of pulse. Much research dealing with gr... Read More about Groove as Familiarity with Time.

Shaping popular music
Book Chapter
Prior, H., & Greasley, A. Shaping popular music.

Much of the research on musical shaping in performance focuses on Western classical music. Although this provides scope for interesting work, the extent to which its findings are applicable to Western popular music is unclear: what different concepti... Read More about Shaping popular music.